Chapter 49: Forging the Army (4)
Since ancient times, it will be a soldier's courage. This is especially evident in cavalry battles. Because of the infantry combat, the emphasis is on the strict formation, advance and retreat consistently, and the cavalry pays attention to inviting the attack and rushing, and each battle must be galloped into battle with warriors to disrupt the enemy's formation, and then the cover of the large group of men and horses can be added. This tactic is exactly in line with the habit of the thieves to hold the public hostage with a small number of elites, so it has been used to the extreme.
What's more, the Central Plains has been swinging for many years, and the thieves are becoming more and more intense, and there is no one who can rise in this endless conquest and killing. Its leader Wang Mi, the bow horse is swift and powerful, and the green soil is called "Flying Leopard"; Liu Ling, the ability to control the bull, walk and gallop the horse, and the courage to kill the Fujia also; Although Wang Yan was slightly inferior to these two, he was also unmatched, and he was one of the fierce generals who was best at commanding the cavalry to break through the enemy's battle formation.
In the past few years, the East China Sea King and Gou Xi's subordinates have been defeated by Wang Yan's courage on the battlefield, and there are really a lot of them; And Wang Yan's subordinates have long been accustomed to following the routine of galloping and expanding the results after the leader breaks up the enemy formation and even kills the enemy general, so although they are galloping bravely everywhere, most of the people's attention is focused on the direction where Wang Yan is.
Thereupon...... The giant man's seemingly mantis arm rushed forward when the car was on the ground, and then he swung his lance and struck hard, almost half of the thieves on the battlefield could see it clearly!
When Wang Yan's head was violently blasted and his flesh and bones splashed half a day high, many thieves suddenly felt cold to the bone, and the rain in the sky seemed to have turned into ice water pouring into the back of their necks, freezing their bodies all over the body. After a moment of stunned work, I don't know how many people were killed by the Jin army by taking advantage of the machine knife and slashing guns. But these losses added up were not as big as the blow that Wang Yan's death brought to the thieves!
Many thieves were instantly depressed: How could it be? The invincible leader had just entered the enemy line, and before he could make contact with the enemy general, he was killed by a pawn Tu Shi Spicy...... How can this not be a shock? How many times in the fierce battles, General Wang is the main force that charges ahead, breaks the formation and kills the generals, and there are no Jin generals who can curb his momentum of rushing into battle! But now ...... Now...... General Wang Yan died like this? Such a brave general has been killed, how can this battle continue? How do you still fight? What else to spell? This battle...... It's impossible to win!
The thieves originally had little tenacity, let alone the habit of fighting against the wind, Wang Yan has always relied on himself to go into battle to inspire the public. Once he himself was killed in battle, except for a very few particularly fierce thieves, the morale of the once fierce and mighty military spirit of the thousands of iron cavalry immediately fell to the point of unbearable. No matter how strong the body, how skillful the skills, and how elite the weapons, once they lose their courage, the once hungry wolf will uncontrollably move closer to the flock. Although the cavalry is still crisscrossing and the Jin infantry is still holding on, the experienced officers are keenly aware that the situation of the battle is about to change!
In the Jin army's main formation, Cao Wei was dumbfounded: "I didn't expect there to be such a fierce warrior in the world!" ”
Cao Wei failed to garrison Baimajin, but was captured by Zhao Lu, Mu Lan and others, so he learned about the boldness and strategy of the Jin army's soldiers; Later, he saw the Jin army bravely crossing the river in the turbulent tide without fear, and he saw the Jin army's well-trained and strict orders; This has made Cao Wei feel awe-inspired, otherwise he would not have been forced to land by Lu Yao. But when he witnessed an ordinary soldier suddenly burst into power and shattered Wang Yan's head with one blow, this battle-hardened veteran really felt shocked! He didn't know how many such brave soldiers would be in the Jin army, even if there was only one person, this kind of pure violence, which was almost non-human, had already subdued him!
Not far from Cao Wei, Lu Yao sighed lightly and waved his hand.
In the heavy rain, the cold light flashed and disappeared. More than a dozen guards stepped back half a step in unison, and re-covered the tightly wound crossbows with felt cloth, so as not to rain on these precious military weapons. After all, the boats collected and built these days are limited, and the space occupied by horses is too large, so the first group of Youzhou troops who crossed the Henan River were all foot soldiers, and there were no cavalry. In addition to the soldiers who fought fiercely on the front line, the guards who carried strong crossbows and wore heavy armor were the most lethal.
The problem is that when the heavy infantry and the cavalry are in confrontation, they will eventually suffer a big loss in terms of movement speed, and as long as the cavalry command is flexible enough, it is difficult for the infantry to grasp the initiative. His move of sending Pang Yuan to meet the enemy was still negligent after all...... Once Wang Yan was killed before the main formation, even though he could be annihilated with the advantage of a strong crossbow, General Pingbei's image of the enemy as a god would inevitably be discounted. Who is this man? Active! Great achievement! Lu Yao squinted, looked ahead, and said to himself.
And Pang Yuan, who led the armor soldiers to rampage, was furious.
Pang Yuan was not a court officer, but one of the small leaders of the horse thieves who surrendered after the battle of Luochuan Daiwangcheng when Lu Yao waved his army into Daijun. The reason why he surrendered was half because of Lu Yao's military might, and half because he had the idea of making meritorious contributions and glorifying his ancestors, because he was extremely brave in the subsequent battle of Huiyuan, so he got the opportunity to be promoted to the general of Pingbei and the samurai. Now that Ma Rui is not here, Lu Yao directly handed over all the elites to him to command, and this trust and attention often made Pang Yuan grateful.
Even so, Pang Yuan was not satisfied with the position of the leader, and the part of his character that was unwilling to be subordinate to others urged him countless times to seize an opportunity to establish meritorious deeds. When Lu Yao and Zu Li met for the first time a few months ago, he brazenly proposed that Lu Yao kill Zu Xiao and seize the military power in Youzhou by forceful means, which can be seen in his character. This time, Lu Yao was ordered to fight Wang Yan, and Pang Yuan was even more energetic to win the first battle of crossing the river to the south.
Wang Yan's reputation as a brave general among the thieves in the Central Plains has been heard of even by the military and civilians of Hebei. Therefore, knowing that there must be a bitter battle, Pang Yuan couldn't bear the joy of being rewarded for his meritorious service. But who knew that the armor soldiers were still on the way to intercept, and they had heard countless people in the formation shouting together: "Kill the enemy general!" Kill the enemy general! ”
This is called Pang Yuan, how can he not be angry!
Fortunately, it is one thing to be angry, and Pang Yuan is not a person who abolishes the public for personal purposes after all. Through the heavy rain curtain, he vaguely saw that the giant man who had killed Wang Yan was besieged by Wang Yan's left and right elite cavalry, and hurriedly shouted loudly, urging the armor soldiers to go to the rescue.
Wang Yan was killed in an instant, which made the thieves frightened, but there were inevitably some exceptions. For example, the knights who rushed into battle with Wang Yan on his left and right were furious, and their fighting spirit became more and more intense. These knights were the fiercest of the thieves, and they were the dead soldiers who had been raised by Wang Yan's favor for a long time, and when they saw their leaders die in battle, their eyes were blood-red and they howled with grief and indignation; He didn't care about rushing to kill the main general of the Jin army, but turned his horse one after another and surrounded the giant man on all sides. Immediately afterwards, swords, guns, and halberds rained down, vowing to cut the giant man into pulp.
Two fists are hard to beat four hands, this is a truth that is not easy in battlefield fighting. Even if there is a thorough ability to do it, one person should not be besieged by dozens of people. But the giant man was indeed extremely brave to a certain extent, and I saw that he danced the lance like a whirlwind, and with the strength of one person, he blocked the back and forth of many cavalrymen and slashed them, but overturned several people; By the time the horsemen had gathered, he had retreated to his original ranks of spearmen.
At this moment, the thief army on the periphery could not maintain the offensive at all, and the shouts of killing became deeper and lower, not only was the defeat decided, but I was afraid that there would be an avalanche in an instant. As a result, these cavalrymen had no backup. But they also frantically surged upward, and did not retreat at all, but instead surrounded this small army of spearmen on all sides, and took turns to charge forward and tease, and divided several men to constantly outflank them, intending to break in from the side and rear to slash and kill.
Because the ground was slippery, the horse's sprinting power and agility could not be fully displayed, but this hand was the right way for the cavalry to restrain the infantry. The spearmen's long weapons did not turn well, and they were against the front, but they could not defend the two sides, and they suddenly fell behind. The giant man roared again and slaughtered several approaching enemies in succession, but the remaining thieves still sacrificed their lives to kill, and they didn't care about their own lives!
Seeing that this team of spearmen would inevitably suffer heavy losses after all, Pang Yuan and the armor soldiers he led arrived.
The armor soldiers were clad in heavy iron armor, and ordinary stabbing and slashing could not help them unless they hit the vital point. And they wielded long knives and halberds, and smashed the long lances hard, killing the horsemen one by one. More than half of the knights were killed and wounded in an instant, and the rest no longer had the fighting spirit, so they fled.
Pang Yuan didn't bother to pay attention to those miscellaneous fish. He ordered his men to be on alert, took off his skull, and took a few steps in the direction of the spearmen. He didn't feel how broad-minded he was, not to mention that he was inevitably a little troubled by the person who robbed his own great merit, so he raised his breath and shouted a little provocatively: "I am General Pingbei's personal guard Pang Yuan, which is the good man who killed Wang Yan?" Come out and see you! ”
Before the cheers fell, the giant man slowly stepped out of the ranks, patted the blood-stained robe casually, and raised his hand to comb his unkempt hair and tie it in a bun.
Pang Yuan saw the face of the giant man at this time, and was taken aback: "Carpenter Hu! It turned out to be you! You...... Are you still alive? He took a sharp step back, and then took another step back: "No wonder, no wonder!" Even though Wang Yan is fierce, since he is fighting against you, there is really no way to live......"
But anyone who was born in Luochuan descended to the people, who doesn't know that in the Ma's Dock Fort in the former Luochuan Dynasty Wangcheng, the weird Hu Xiu who served his mother and only relied on carpenter's skills to make a living! Who doesn't know that this Hu Xiu has unparalleled brute strength, even with his bare hands, he can fight lions and kill tigers, and he is invincible! Pang Yuan also vaguely remembered that when Lu Yao led the army to attack Daiwangcheng, the leaders of the Ma clan took many old and weak women and children, including Hu Xiu's mother, as hostages, and coerced Hu Xiu and others to confront the imperial court soldiers and horses.
Later, Pang Yuan joined Lu Yao's expedition to the east and west, and he never heard any news about Hu Xiu again. He never thought that Hu Xiu had already joined the command of General Pingbei, and he was just an ordinary soldier!
Pang Yuan was shocked, and Hu Xiu glanced at him, his expression was very indifferent, as if Fang Cai's feat was nothing: "It's Hu Xiu here." ”
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There is a bug in the previous article, and Ma Rui who appeared is really a mistake of Pang Yuan. Thank you, readers, friends.